Cassie Peeters has wanted to be a doctor for as long as she can remember — she just wasn’t sure if she was cut out for it.
That’s why the chance to specialize her high school education in a health and wellness program appealed to her. Now she’s headed to university to learn about neurological and psychological studies before she takes that step into medicine.
When you think of Europe, you probably don’t think about American roots music like bluegrass. The Kruger Brothers will change your mind when they perform at Peterborough Musicfest in Del Crary Park at 8 p.m. on Saturday, August 15th.
Prepare to have your sins washed away in the blood of Jesus! The Reverend Bobby Angel returns to 4th Line Theatre in the revival of Gimme That Prime Time Religion, on now until Saturday, August 29th at the Winslow Farm in Millbrook.
It was this time last year that the GreenUP office came alive with butterflies. Our GreenUP Ecology Park staff went on a mission that involved searching out monarch caterpillars and transporting them back to our Aylmer St. office so the amazing transformation into butterflies could be witnessed first-hand.
August often seems to be the most peculiar month for the Peterborough Theatre Guild, but it’s also often the most interesting. Perhaps because producing the last of its “off season” shows before the main season begins gives the Guild room to take risks and stage edgier productions.
Downtown Peterborough was buzzing for the fifth annual Hootenanny on Hunter Street last Saturday, August 8th. kawarthaNOW photographer Linda McIlwain was there to document the self-described “Street Festival for Everyone”.
Vocal country music? Country a capella? Beatbox barbershop country? However you want to label the group’s music, Home Free is one of the most unusual success stories in recent music history and brings its unique style of music to Peterborough Musicfest on Wednesday, August 12th at 8 p.m.
Music documentaries: when they’re good can be transcendently powerful experiences (see Gimme Shelter, Searching For Sugarman, No Direction Home), but when a documentary is bad — and unfortunately most are — it can tarnish a piece of gold or even dull the legacy of whatever it alleges to be celebrating.
Peer and Lori Christensen have good eyes for appealing artwork ranging from classical landscapes to pieces with some flair and contemporary risk-taking.
The daughter of diplomats, Jane Bow grew up in Canada, in the U.S., in fascist Spain, in England and in communist Czechoslovakia. The French and British schools she attended could have come out of a Charles Dickens novel and her teenage holidays were spent behind the Iron Curtain. This background has given her insights that inform her history-based fiction.
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